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Am looking for John William,married to Sarah Ann (nee Brown) 7 children.Harry,Arthur,Mary Jane Emily,Alice Maud,Alfred,Frederick,and John. Can anyone help please?John William (Father) was named as a 'Stageman ' on John (Son) birth certificate.(1879)
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Surnames: clegg
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searching for the following clegg family;
Henry Ernest Clegg b app 1874
Alice Clegg b app 1875
children;
Florence Clegg b app 1895
Charles Clegg b app 1897
William Ernest Clegg b app 1900
in the Accrington/ Lancashire districts.
Hello list
I am trying to research one ABEL CLEGG of Manchester. He was a mill owner in the C19th and reputedly a victim of garrotting. I'm afraid that's all I know about him at the moment - I thought I would see if anyone here has an Abel Clegg before I started trawling the usual sources.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
All who are searching the surname CLEGG
www.ask.com or Google search, Samuel Clegg Inventor
There is some interesting reading here.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan D Lee" <alanjudy337(a)juno.com>
To: <CLEGG-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CLEGG] MATHEW SIMPSON CLEGG SR. 1810-1892
> Hi Mary,
> Yes I am doing research on Mathew Simpson Clegg he is 3rd great
> grandfather. Mathew was a Soapbox Prohibitionist and loved to lecture on
> the topic. He fought in the Civil War for the North. He enrolled at age
> 52 as First Lieutenant in Indianapolis by Governor Morton on 3 September
> 1862. He mustered into Company "M", 90th Calvary, 5th Division in
> Indianapolis. He mustered out at Pulaski, Tennessee as a Captain on 30
> June 1865.
>
> During the war, Mathew was captured by the Rebels at Macon, Georgia and
> spent six months in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia before being
> exchanged.
>
> Mathew's family moved to Utica, Indiana when he was 14. Later, Mathew
> and Mary were founding members of the First Advent Church in Henryville.
>
> Mathew and his wife Martha died on the same day in unrelated deaths.
>
> Mathew was able to give each of his children a small farm or house and
> lot in town when they were married. He sold a sawmill to B. F. Stewards
> after the Civil War.
>
> There was a long-standing feud between the Clegg's and the Patterson's.
> At one time, Mathew was engaged in a dispute over the ownership of a farm
> with a William Patterson (his nephew by marriage). He went to the farm
> to take possession and was shot through the lung by a hidden assassin.
> Patterson fled and his family soon followed to Missouri. Captain Clegg
> lay for some time hovering between life and death, but finally recovered
> and lived for a quarter of a century.
>
>
> In the last paper mention was made of Captain Matthew Clegg and his son
> Matthew (Polk) Clegg, who went into the Civil War as members of the Fifth
> Indiana Cavalry, the last named perishing so miserable in Andersonville
> prison. Such a patriot and patriarch as the elder Clegg deserves special
> mention in these sketches. Matthew Clegg was born in Virginia, April 25,
> 1810, and came to Clark County, Indiana, in 1824. Early in life he
> became a farmer, and up to the day of his death he was engaged in that
> occupation, or interested in it. He was married to his second wife,
> Martha Allen, January 28, 1836. Thirteen children were born to them, nine
> of whom survive. Up to the time of death of Captain Clegg and wife,
> sixty-nine grandchildren and ten great-grand children had been born,
> nearly all of whom are alive yet. In 1862 he entered the army as a
> Liutenant (sic) of Co. L, 5th Indiana Cavalry, and was mustered out in
> 1865. After the war he resumed farming, also engaging in the practice of
> law. At one time he was elected by the Democratic party as Prosecutor of
> the Clark and Floyd Circuit Court. Although he was not considered a
> finished and educated lawyer, he made one of the most efficient and
> effective Prosecutors the two counties ever had. In some respects his
> life was eventful and deeply exciting. At one time he was engaged in a
> dispute over the ownership of a farm with a William Patterson, his nephew
> by marriage. He went to the farm to take possession, and was shot
> through the left lung by a hidden assassin. Patterson fled and his family
> soon followed, to Missouri. These facts directed suspicion to Patterson
> as the guilty party. Mr. Clegg lay for some time hovering between life
> and death, but finally recovered to live over a quarter of a century, and
> considering this incident, with the trying exposure of the army, and his
> inexpressible suffering at Andersonville, his vigor and tenacity of life
> were almost unexampled. Mr. Clegg was a loyal, devoted friend, and once
> engaged in a quarrel he punished his enemies severely. Himself and wife
> were members of the Second Advent Church. He was zealous and liberal for
> his favorite sect, and his influence has left a plant that will live many
> years, if not all time. He was a hospitable, kind and Christian man, and
> was a strong prohibitionist.
>
> Mrs. Clegg was born near the present town of Henryville, then a howling
> wilderness, December 10, 1818. She was a sister of Cass Allen and Mrs.
> Phineas Taylor, of Union Township. She was an industrious, quiet, modest
> woman, a true Christian and a faithful, loyal wife. She left her
> impression on the generation that survives, and during all the struggles
> of her husband was a true ally and counsellor (sic).
>
> It was a singular coincidence that both these old people died the same
> day, February 6, 1892. During the severe weather of January preceding,
> while Mr. Clegg was at a well in his yard, watering a horse, he slipped
> on the ice, falling on his breast from which injuries death indirectly
> resulted. He was about his house for two or three days afterward, then
> took to his bed with pneumonia, never again to leave it. He died about 7
> A.M. Mrs. Clegg, who was taken with the same disease about ten days
> previously, steadily advanced toward dissolution until about 12 o'clock
> the same day, when she entered into everlasting rest without having been
> informed that her life partner had just preceded her five hours. Both
> these venerable patriarchs were conscious to the last. In their death
> two landmarks of the early days of the century were removed. Such was
> the life of this couple who dwelt together in love, peace and unity for
> 56 years, United in life, undivided in death, is a privilege rarely
> accorded to man and wife. Both were full of years and ripe for the
> reaper.
>
> In Monroe township, and particularly Henryville, where they lived so many
> years, the memory of the late Capt. and Mrs. Matthew Clegg will be long
> cherished. They died February 6th, and the absence of the portly and
> familiar figure of Mr. Clegg from the village streets upon which it was
> his habit to stroll at any hour of the day, is much commented upon by
> elderly citizens who miss his cordial greetings and kindly smile of
> recognition. They fully realize that in his death an old landmark has
> been removed. In his later years Mr. Clegg was a strong Prohibitionist.
> His last race for office, that of Prosecuting Attorney of the Circuit
> Court was made on that platform. He had the courage of his convictions
> on temperance, and boldly maintained them though fully aware his defeat
> was certain. People listened patiently and interestedly to his remarks
> and admitted the justness of his views, but in almost every instance they
> voted with the older political parties. If Mr. Clegg had a hobby it was
> that of temperance, and in his public utterances, though intending
> perhaps to discuss a theme entirely different from his favorite one, it
> was rare indeed if he did not before closing drift into the very one he
> had endeavored to avoid. He had the most utter contempt for those
> engaged in the liquor traffic seeming to regard them as the devil's
> emmissaries (sic). Mr. Clegg delivered the Decoration Day address at Mt.
> Zion, May 30, 1886. He stood in the shadow of the old church, since torn
> down, and opened with a glowing eulogy to the memory of those brave boys
> in blue who had fought, bled and died that the Union might be preserved.
> He continued in this strain for some time, citing many incidents of his
> army life, but apparently ere himself or his hearers were aware of it he
> had drifted into the temperance arena and was hurling thunderbolts of the
> most withering and stinging anathema at the cohorts of King Alcohol.
> Several of his hearers laughingly called it a cavalry charge into the
> ranks of the great fore to the human race, for Mr. Clegg was an officer
> of the 5th Indiana Cavalry, though objecting in civil life to being
> addressed by his military title. Others declared that tribute to the
> fallen soldiery the most fearful arraignment of the saloon keeping
> element they had ever heard. It was enough to make a bar-keeper's hair
> curl to listen to it. Shortly before Mr. Clegg's death, the Record
> reporter met him on a Henryville street. It was their last meeting. The
> old gentleman seemed in a thoughtful mood, even despondent. He was
> waiting the opening of a magistrate's court, a trial having been set for
> a hearing in which he was to represent the plaintiff. The attorney for
> defendant had arrived by an early train and forthwith began screwing his
> courage up to the point argumentative by so many visits to the saloon
> that he had a large and unweildy "jag" of liquor concealed within his
> paunch. "Now" said Clegg, "of all things detestable there's nothing worse
> then to contend in a county court with a drunken lawyer on the opposing
> side, and with that fellow getting drunker every minute, how we'll manage
> to get through with this side, and with this case without running it into
> a farce, heaven only knows". As he extended his hand at parting, he said
> "Young man, if I could write like you can, I'd quit reporting these
> village dog fights and write a novel or a series of novels." The result
> of the trial was that the drunken lawyer lost his case. Mr. Clegg's last
> appearance in court was in a case venued from ????, and tried before
> Squire Weir at Memphis, December 30, 1891 being that of Pennington v.
> Kelly. A few days later he fell on the ice at a well in his yard while
> watering his horse. From this resulted pneumonia, which his iron
> constitution enabled him to battle with nearly four weeks before he
> yielded.
>
> Alan Lee
>
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I have Clegg ancestors, Can I see the pictures you have?
Thanks
Patsy Clegg Moser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bette Schiedler" <Bette(a)Limo.Net>
To: <CLEGG-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [CLEGG] MATHEW SIMPSON CLEGG SR. 1810-1892
>
Hi,
> Mary Thank you for replying. I am through James Clegg which I
> noticed who ever e-mailed never mentioned as been in the Union
> army . So, if it is not to much trouble, I would love to have any
> pictures of M & M Clegg & if you have any of James. I have not been into
> geneolgy lately(because I moved & no room) but I am still
> interested. My mother-in-laws maiden name was Zollner. Could be from
> the same area as Zollman? Thank You, Bette Bauer
> Schiedler
> At 11:32 AM 8/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello Bette,
> > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I do realize that Mathew is in a few
> >books. Which one are you referring to? Baird's History of Clark County
> >has an article on James A. Clegg which mentions Mathew. CLEGGS of the
> >Upper Ohio Valley by Blaine Clegg is very informative. Of course the
> >information in Baird's History is occasionally only as good as what
> >interested relatives passed on to him. For
> >instance: Mathew was
> >born in 1810 in VA.
> > Catharine (Anderson), Mathew's 1st wife died August 25, 1834.
> >They were married March 3, 1831 by Rezin Hammond. She is buried at Mt.
> >Moriah Cemetery in Henryville, IN (the small obelisk behind Mathew and
> >Martha's stone). Catharine was 21 years & 6 months when she died.
> > Mathew & Martha were married Feb. 26, 1836. Martha was born
Dec. 9,
> >1818. Mathew & Martha died Feb. 5, 1892.
> >
> > (I am not faulting Baird for the errors. He did a fantastic job
with
> >the information he was given, and has been a tremendous help to many
> >individuals in their research).
> > Anyone researching the CLEGG family would also find the book by
> > Blaine
> >Clegg a real help.
> >
> >P.S. I have a few pictures of the Clegg ancestors, Mathew & Martha
> >Clegg; their son Richard and his wife Ruth (Mc Coskey); the old Clegg
> >School and Church at Henryville, Indiana; Richard Marion and Hester
> >Clegg. I also have some very good pictures of the family of Richard and
> >Ruth (Mc Coskey) Clegg, both in their younger and adult years. These
> >are scanned and I can
> >e-mail them to those interested.
> >
> > Mary (Ruddell) Zollman
> >
> >
> >Bette Schiedler wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, Has someone told you, there is a book out with Mathew
> > > mentioned in
> > > it? Bette
> > >
> >
At
> > > 04:05 PM 8/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >Hello All,
> > > > Is anyone doing research on the above individual? MATHEW
was
> > born in
> > > >Indiana to RICHARD CLEGG and MARY B. (SIMPSON) CLEGG. He lived in
> > > >Henryville, Indiana, was a lawyer, fought in the Civil War, and an
> > > >ancestor of COL. HARLAND SANDERS.
> > > > Mary (Ruddell)
Zollman
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
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> > >
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>
>
>
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>
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go to:
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>
>
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I am still in the dark. If you have anything on John Clegg b@1870 and Mary Arnett b@ 1870 please let me know. The only thing that I have is John Clegg father Thomas Labor Clegg b@ 1837 and mother Ellen? b@ 1838. They had five children: JESSIE b1861, WILLIAM b 1865, JOHN b 1868, ELLIE b 1882, and CHARLIE b 1884 all in Ohio. Please email me with any info that you have. ssmit170(a)peoplepc.com